Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures

by Newton, Richard
ISBN: 9781781795477
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This volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley's Roots as a case study in 'operational acts of identification.' It examines the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. Where cultural studies scholars have critiqued notions of sacrosanct 'rootedness, ' this book shows the fruit of critically identifying those claims. It reframes the concept of 'roots' as a theoretical vocabulary and grammar for the anthropology of scriptures - a way of parsing the cultural texts that seem to read us back
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Newton, Richard
  • ISBN: 9781781795477
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.50 x 0.67
  • Number Of Pages: 280
  • Publication Year: 2020